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Social Roots

Author : Cindy Gordon,Andrew Weir
Publisher : Business Expert Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781606499290

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Social Roots traces the history of a fundamental economic shift that is underway. The shift is rooted in virtualization, a key innovation factor, but when combined with influence networks, the significance becomes transformative. The combined power of these dimensions is creating a new economic paradigm based on return on collaboration metrics rooted in social capital theory. Inside is the story of the near magical transformation, written specifically so we do not forget the significance of this decade of leadership in the influence economy. Many of the stories in the first part of Social Roots are about organizations that took the opportunity to experiment and experience the power of social networking approaches to conducting business; and social innovators striving to make the world a better place. Their contributions to creating the influence economy are numerous, and their story of how they achieved success creates a tapestry of insight.

The Social Roots of Risk

Author : Kathleen Tierney
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804791403

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“This book about risk and disaster—and how they get amplified—is fascinating and hugely important as we face an ever-more-turbulent world.” —Rebecca Solnit, award-winning author of A Field Guide to Getting Lost The first decade of the twenty-first century saw a remarkable number of large-scale disasters. Earthquakes in Haiti and Sumatra underscored the serious economic consequences that catastrophic events can have on developing countries, while 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina showed that first world nations remain vulnerable. The Social Roots of Risk argues against the widespread notion that cataclysmic occurrences are singular events, driven by forces beyond our control. Instead, Kathleen Tierney contends that disasters of all types—be they natural, technological, or economic—are rooted in common social and institutional sources. Put another way, risks and disasters are produced by the social order itself—by governing bodies, organizations, and groups that push for economic growth, oppose risk-reducing regulation, and escape responsibility for tremendous losses when they occur. Considering a wide range of historical and looming events—from a potential mega-earthquake in Tokyo that would cause devastation far greater than what we saw in 2011, to BP’s accident history prior to the 2010 blowout—Tierney illustrates trends in our behavior, connecting what seem like one-off events to illuminate historical patterns. Like risk, human resilience also emerges from the social order, and this book makes a powerful case that we already have a significant capacity to reduce the losses that disasters produce. A provocative rethinking of the way that we approach and remedy disasters, The Social Roots of Risk leaves readers with a better understanding of how our own actions make us vulnerable to the next big crisis—and what we can do to prevent it. “Brilliant . . . Drawing on a trove of timely case studies, Tierney analyses how factors such as speculative finance and rampant development allow natural and economic blips to tip more easily into catastrophe.” —Nature

The Social Roots of American Politics

Author : Byron E. Shafer,Regina L. Wagner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780197650875

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The Social Roots of American Politics by Byron E. Shafer,Regina L. Wagner Pdf

A novel and powerful explanation of the social roots of American politics and the powerful forces in the background. The usual approach to political conflict is to look at policy battles inside government, then trace them back to political parties and organized interests. Yet, in The Social Roots of American Politics, Regina L. Wagner and Byron E. Shafer begin at the opposite end of the causal chain by looking at the social roots of American political conflict, how these roots produce differing policy preferences in the general public, and how those preferences get transmitted into American government. Drawing from over a half-century of public surveys of American voters, they demonstrate that class, race, religion, and gender provide the roots of these conflicts across the four primary domains of policy conflict: social welfare, civil rights, foreign affairs, and cultural values. They also factor in how regional differences affect partisan attachment, focusing on the South in particular. By turning the focus to deep-rooted social cleavages, this book provides a novel and powerful explanation of the basic forces that shape the contours of conflict in American politics.

The Grace Of social roots

Author : Sanoj Kumar,Kiran Baghari
Publisher : The Spirit Mania
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-30
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9798886679465

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The Grace Of social roots by Sanoj Kumar,Kiran Baghari Pdf

This book is based on a national Day' has the potential to be a major icon for every Indian where they can read and express their love for our country. Every national day has its own importance, which teaches us to be exposed to our country in different ways, such as Martyrs Day, Ayushman Bharat Day, Labor Day, International Education Day, Hindi Day, Vijay Diwas, Farmers Day, Republic Day, Anti Terrorist Day, Youth day, etc. and yes we can say that celebrating all the national days brings the people of a country closer. It makes them have common aims. It makes them feel that they have to live and die together.

Rampage

Author : Katherine S. Newman,Cybelle Fox,David Harding,Jal Mehta,Wendy Roth
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780786722372

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Rampage by Katherine S. Newman,Cybelle Fox,David Harding,Jal Mehta,Wendy Roth Pdf

In the last decade, school shootings have decimated communities and terrified parents, teachers, and children in even the most “family friendly” American towns and suburbs. These tragedies appear to be the spontaneous acts of disconnected teens, but this important book argues that the roots of violence are deeply entwined in the communities themselves. Rampage challenges the “loner theory” of school violence and shows why so many adults and students miss the warning signs that could prevent it.

Radical Roots

Author : Denise D. Meringolo
Publisher : Amherst College Press
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781943208210

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While all history has the potential to be political, public history is uniquely so: public historians engage in historical inquiry outside the bubble of scholarly discourse, relying on social networks, political goals, practices, and habits of mind that differ from traditional historians. Radical Roots: Public History and a Tradition of Social Justice Activism theorizes and defines public history as future-focused, committed to the advancement of social justice, and engaged in creating a more inclusive public record. Edited by Denise D. Meringolo and with contributions from the field’s leading figures, this groundbreaking collection addresses major topics such as museum practices, oral history, grassroots preservation, and community-based learning. It demonstrates the core practices that have shaped radical public history, how they have been mobilized to promote social justice, and how public historians can facilitate civic discourse in order to promote equality. "This is a much-needed recalibration, as professional organizations and practitioners across genres of public history struggle to diversify their own ranks and to bring contemporary activists into the fold." — Catherine Gudis, University of California, Riverside. "Taken all together, the articles in this volume highlight the persistent threads of justice work that has characterized the multifaceted history of public history as well as the challenges faced in doing that work."—Patricia Mooney-Melvin, The Public Historian

The Social Origins of Electoral Participation in Emerging Democracies

Author : Danielle F. Jung,James D. Long
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009118514

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The Social Origins of Electoral Participation in Emerging Democracies by Danielle F. Jung,James D. Long Pdf

Given the enormous challenges they face, why do so many citizens in developing countries routinely turn out to vote? This Element explores a new explanation grounded in the social origins of electoral participation in emerging democracies, where mobilization requires local collective action. This Element argues that, beyond incentives to express ethnic identity and vote-buying, perceptions of social sanctioning from community-based formal and informal actors galvanize many to vote who might otherwise stay home. Sanctioning is reinforced by the ability to monitor individual turnout given the open layout and centralized locations of polling stations and the use of electoral ink that identifies voters. This argument is tested using original survey and qualitative data from Africa and Afghanistan, contributing important insights on the nature of campaigns and elections in the promotion of state-building and service delivery, and the critical role voters play reducing fears of global democratic backsliding.

The Social and Economic Roots of the Scientific Revolution

Author : Gideon Freudenthal,Peter McLaughlin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402096044

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The Social and Economic Roots of the Scientific Revolution by Gideon Freudenthal,Peter McLaughlin Pdf

The texts of Boris Hessen and Henryk Grossmann assembled in this volume are important contributions to the historiography of the Scienti?c Revolution and to the methodology of the historiography of science. They are of course also historical documents, not only testifying to Marxist discourse of the time but also illustrating typical European fates in the ?rst half of the twentieth century. Hessen was born a Jewish subject of the Russian Czar in the Ukraine, participated in the October Revolution and was executed in the Soviet Union at the beginning of the purges. Grossmann was born a Jewish subject of the Austro-Hungarian Kaiser in Poland and served as an Austrian of?cer in the First World War; afterwards he was forced to return to Poland and then because of his revolutionary political activities to emigrate to Germany; with the rise to power of the Nazis he had to ?ee to France and then Americawhilehisfamily,whichremainedinEurope,perishedinNaziconcentration camps. Our own acquaintance with the work of these two authors is also indebted to historical context (under incomparably more fortunate circumstances): the revival of Marxist scholarship in Europe in the wake of the student movement and the p- fessionalization of history of science on the Continent. We hope that under the again very different conditions of the early twenty-?rst century these texts will contribute to the further development of a philosophically informed socio-historical approach to the study of science.

The Social Roots of Discrimination

Author : Peretz F. Bernstein
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781412812351

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The Social Roots of Discrimination by Peretz F. Bernstein Pdf

The Social Roots of Discrimination explains the phenomenon of anti-Semitism. In this classic volume, Peretz F. Bernstein looks for objective reasons why anti-Semitism flourished in European countries. Some civilized people would consider the notion of race uncivilized, but the existence of different races and the inequality of races with their specific race characteristics and on top of that the existence of superior and inferior human races was accepted as a fact of life and as a scientific truth long before the Nazis came to power. Although there is a marked difference in dealing with anti-Semitism in continental Europe in 1920 and the anti-Semitism in, for instance, the US in 2000, Berstein's ideas remain valuable. Starting from a concrete problem, anti-Semitism in Central Europe, Bernstein puts anti-Semitism in a general sociological theoretical framework. Far from limiting himself to fruitless elaborations on the common perceived unpleasant characteristics of Jews, he recognizes that the group is heterogeneous and that the usual arguments to justify anti-Semitism do not have any general validity, although they may hold for some specific individuals of the hated group, like individual members of any group may be less pleasant. Bernstein's ideas remain valuable. Bernstein tries to explain the hatred of Jews as the working of a more general mechanism--one that has nothing to do specifically with of Jews as a collective or as individuals. In doing so Bernstein attempts to sketch a general theory of social groups and conflicts between groups. The Social Roots of Discrimination gives an important message both for social scientists and for all intellectuals who are concerned with the strifes between nations, races, and social groups.

The Social Origins of Democratic Collapse

Author : Kathleen Crowley Schwartzman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015015498143

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Schwartzman's study of the first Portuguese republic demonstrates the significant ways in which a nation's social and political structures are shaped by its position in the global economy.

Captains Of Consciousness Advertising And The Social Roots Of The Consumer Culture

Author : Stuart Ewen
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786722877

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Captains Of Consciousness Advertising And The Social Roots Of The Consumer Culture by Stuart Ewen Pdf

Captains of Consciousness offers a historical look at the origins of the advertising industry and consumer society at the turn of the twentieth century. For this new edition Stuart Ewen, one of our foremost interpreters of popular culture, has written a new preface that considers the continuing influence of advertising and commercialism in contemporary life. Not limiting his critique strictly to consumers and the advertising culture that serves them, he provides a fascinating history of the ways in which business has refined its search for new consumers by ingratiating itself into Americans' everyday lives. A timely and still-fascinating critique of life in a consumer culture.

Interactive Democracy

Author : Carol C. Gould
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 1316053784

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Interactive Democracy by Carol C. Gould Pdf

How can we confront the problems of diminished democracy, pervasive economic inequality, and persistent global poverty? Is it possible to fulfill the dual aims of deepening democratic participation and achieving economic justice, not only locally but also globally? Carol C. Gould proposes an integrative and interactive approach to the core values of democracy, justice, and human rights, looking beyond traditional politics to the social conditions that would enable us to realize these aims. Her innovative philosophical framework sheds new light on social movements across borders, the prospects for empathy and solidarity with distant others, and the problem of gender inequalities in diverse cultures, and also considers new ways in which democratic deliberation can be enhanced by online networking and extended to the institutions of global governance. Her book will be of great interest to scholars and upper-level students of political philosophy, global justice, social and political science, and gender studies.

Humble Roots

Author : Hannah Anderson
Publisher : Moody Publishers
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802494450

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Feeling worn thin? Come find rest. The Blue Ridge Parkway meanders through miles of rolling Virginia mountains. It’s a route made famous by natural beauty and the simple rhythms of rural life. And it’s in this setting that Hannah Anderson began her exploration of what it means to pursue a life of peace and humility. Fighting back her own sense of restlessness and anxiety, she finds herself immersed in the world outside, discovering a classroom full of forsythia, milkweed, and a failed herb garden. Lessons about soil preparation, sour mulch, and grapevine blights reveal the truth about our dependence on God, finding rest, and fighting discontentment. Humble Roots is part theology of incarnation and part stroll through the fields and forest. Anchored in the teaching of Jesus, Anderson explores how cultivating humility—not scheduling, strict boundaries, or increased productivity—leads to peace. “Come unto me, all who labor and are heavy laden,” Jesus invites us, “and you will find rest for your souls.” So come. Learn humility from the lilies of the field and from the One who is humility Himself. Remember who you are and Who you are not, and rediscover the rest that comes from belonging to Him.

The Social Origins of Modern Science

Author : P. Zilsel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9789401141420

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The Social Origins of Modern Science by P. Zilsel Pdf

Here, for the first time, is a single volume in English that contains all the important historical essays Edgar Zilsel (1891-1944) published during WWII on the emergence of modern science. It also contains one previously unpublished essay and an extended version of an essay published earlier. This volume is unique in its well-articulated social perspective on the origins of modern science and is of major interest to students in early modern social history/history of science, professional philosophers, historians, and sociologists of science.

Between Mao and Gandhi

Author : Ches Thurber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108844062

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Asks why some dissident movements adopt nonviolent strategies of resistance, while others choose to take up arms.